Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Fraggle Blog - Junior Faces the Music

Episode IVv, written by Bob Sandler.

Yay, Cantus!

So why isn't Junior tempted to look behind the sheet and see who's there?

Cantus singing sounds a lot like Dr. Teeth.

Muppet Wiki tells us Bob Stutt is puppeteering Boober to Dave Goelz's voice in this episode...but it doesn't tell us why.

It's a kazoo, Junior...you gotta hum!

Now that episode wasn't nearly as well plotted as some recent ones. The depth to which these plots have been thought through is incredibly important to the overall success of the episode. In this case, the whole thing felt sort of "trumped up". There's some ritualistic rite of passage that Gorgs have to go through, and we've never heard of this before, but suddenly we're all supposed to really care whether or not Junior can play the mystical kazoo. The structuring seems haphazard at best, and the stakes are pretty nebulous. Not one of the best.

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